Analogy Weight Check

Table of Contents

• Mechanical-weight test
• Workflow
• Worked example
• Guardrails

Related skills: Called by Editor in structural pass (since analogy decisions affect paragraph structure). Reads shared-context/analogy-catalog.md for novelty.

Mechanical-weight test

The test: if you remove the analogy, does the explanation still work?

• Still works → analogy is decorative. Either cut or extend so it carries weight.
• Degrades → analogy carries weight. Keep.

A decorative analogy is not a tier-1 issue by itself — writers may legitimately use decorative language occasionally. But: